He, with the others, afterwards bought Agawan of the Indians, a tract about twenty miles long and six miles wide, and made a settlement, which he called Southampton. They made their settlement on the 13th December, 1640.

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The consideration paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for ihe land. Edmund Farrington returned to Lynn, Mass., and in ]G55 built a raill there, and dug a pond and opened a brook for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farrington died in 1680, aged 88 years. Two of his sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, afterwards removed to Flushing. Thomas Farrington in 1645 was one of the patentees of Flushing, and his brother Edward was a magistrate there in 1657. The latter had a son named John Mastin Farrington.

Thomas Farrington, the first of that name mentioned in the Eastchester town records, was one of their descendants. He emigrated from Flushing to Eastchester about the year 1750, and became one of the purchasers of a portion of Long Reach, a district of the town ; and the farm that he owned in that patent is yet in the possession of one of his descendants, Mr. Jonas Farrington of the city of New York.

Thomas settled in Yonkers -- afterwards removed near Hunt's Bridge and then to the Long Reacli.

Thomas Farrington died about the year 1793, aged about 90 years of age, and his grave and that of his second wife lies at the junction of a lane called Farrington's Lane, running through his farm with the White Plains Road. Thomas Farrington mar., first wife, a Miss Norris ; and his sister Jane Farrington mar. John Norris, the brother of his first wife. Their children -- 1. Robert mar. Charity, sister of Nehemiah Hunt. 2. Sarah mar. Anthony Valentine. 3.